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The choicest, sweetest, wisest, strongest Christian

Remember that it is not hasty reading—but serious
meditation on holy and heavenly truths, which makes
them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.

It is not the mere touching of the flower by the
bee which gathers honey—but her abiding for a
time on the flower which draws out the sweet.

It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates
most—who will prove to be the choicest,
sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian.

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Books may preach . . .
when the author cannot,
when the author may not,
when the author dares not,
yes, and which is more,
when the author is not.

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Biblical knowledge
Reader, remember this: if your biblical knowledge
does not now affect your heart, it will at last, with
a witness, afflict your heart.
If it does not now endear Christ to you, it will at
last provoke Christ the more against you.
If it does not make all the things of Christ to be
very precious in your eyes, it will at last make
you the more vile in Christ's eyes.

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God has in Himself . . .
all power to defend you;
all wisdom to direct you;
all mercy to pardon you;
all grace to enrich you;
all righteousness to clothe you;
all goodness to supply you; and
all happiness to crown you.

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The golden link of love!

It was the golden link of love that
fastened Christ to the cross!

Certainly the more Christ has suffered for us,
the more dear Christ should be unto us. The
more bitter his sufferings have been for us,
the more sweet his love should be to us, and
the more eminent should be our love to him.
Oh, let a suffering Christ lie nearest your hearts;
let him be your manna, your tree of life, your
morning star. It is better to part with all than
with this pearl of price.

Christ is that golden pipe through
which the golden oil of salvation runs.

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Follow the Lamb!

Follow the Lamb, though others follow
the beast and the false prophets.

Follow the Lamb wherever He goes.

Take up the cross, and follow the Lamb
over hedge and ditch, through thick and thin.

Do not turn your backs on Christ.

Deny yourself; your natural self, your sinful
self, your religious self, to follow the Lamb.

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Satisfaction

The rattle without the breast, will not satisfy the child;
the house without the husband, will not satisfy the wife;
the world without Christ, will not satisfy the soul.

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The highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life

Everything that a man leans upon but God,
will be a dart that will certainly pierce his
heart through and through. He who leans
only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest,
safest, and sweetest life.

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You see my desires

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our
private requests are ever so broken, and though our private
groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them,
records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will
one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

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There are three things which earthly riches can never do-
they can never satisfy divine justice,
they can never pacify divine wrath,
nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience.
And until these things are done, man is undone.

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God pays as He promises

Satan promises the best—but pays with the worst;
he promises honor—and pays with disgrace;
he promises pleasure—and pays with pain;
he promises profit—and pays with loss;
he promises life—and pays with death!
But God pays as He promises; all His
payments are made in pure gold.

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Afflictions are the mother of virtue

"The flowers smell sweetest after a shower;
vines bear the better for bleeding;
the walnut-tree is most fruitful when most beaten;
saints spring and thrive most internally,
when they are most externally afflicted.
Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
Manasseh's chain was more profitable to him than his crown.
All of the stones that came about Stephen's ears
did but knock him closer to Christ, the corner-stone.

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I am totally His!

I am His by purchase and I am His by conquest; I am His by
donation and I am His by election; I am His by covenant and I
am His by marriage; I am wholly His; I am peculiarly His; I am
universally His; I am eternally His. Once I was a slave but now
I am a son; once I was dead but now I am alive; once I was
darkness but now I am light in the Lord; once I was a child of
wrath, an heir of hell, but now I am an heir of heaven; once I
was Satan's bond-servant but now I am God's freeman; once I
was under the spirit of bondage but now I am under the Spirit
of adoption that seals up to me the remission of my sins, the
justification of my person and the salvation of my soul.

* * * * * * *

The gate of heaven!

The best and sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives
to his people when they are upon their knees.

Prayer is the gate of heaven, a key to let us into Paradise.

* * * * * * *

If the heart be dumb

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and
if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

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Crocodile sinners

The sinner never leaves his sin till sin first leaves him.

Did not death put a stop to his sin,
he would never cease from sin.

This may be illustrated by a similitude thus—
a company of gamesters resolve to play all night; their candle,
accidentally or unexpectedly, goes out, or is put out, or burns out.
Their candle being out, they are forced to give over their game,
and go to bed in the dark. But had the candle lasted all night,
they would have played all night.

This is every sinner's case in regard of sin—did not death
put out the candle of life, the sinner would sin still.

Should the sinner live forever, he would sin forever;
and, therefore, it is a righteous thing with God to
punish him forever in hellish torments.

Every impenitent sinner would sin to the days of eternity,
if he might live to the days of eternity.

I have read of the crocodile, that he knows no maximum size,
he is always growing bigger and bigger, and never comes to a
certain pitch of monstrosity so long as he lives.

Likewise, every habituated sinner would, if he were let alone,
be a monster, perpetually growing worse and worse.

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A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he has made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

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Believer, closet prayer will be found to be but a lifeless, comfortless thing, if you do not enjoy communion with God in it. That should be the very soul of all your closet duties, therefore press after it, as for life; when you go into your closet banish every thing that can hinder your enjoyment of Christ.

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Christians are not to receive anything lightly which concerns faith and salvation. They need to try and examine it over and over. We are not to reject an error ignorantly, but rationally; nor are we to embrace a truth till we have debated and examined whether it is a truth or not.

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Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins—or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.

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Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

* * * * * * *

Christ never undertakes to heal any but he makes a certain cure, 'Those whom you give me I have kept, and none of them is lost' (John17:12). Other physicians can only cure those who are sick, but Christ cures them that are dead, 'And you has he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins.' (Eph. 2:1).

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Christ's love is like his name, and that is Wonderful, Isaiah 9:6; yes, it is so wonderful, that it is above all creatures, beyond all measure, contrary to all nature.

It is above all creatures, for it is above the angels, and therefore above all others.

It is beyond all measure, for time did not begin it, and time shall never end it; place does not bound it, sin does not exceed it; no estate, no age, no sex is denied it; tongues cannot express it, understandings cannot conceive it.

It is contrary to all nature; for what nature can love where it is hated? What nature can forgive where it is provoked? What nature can offer reconcilement where it receives wrong? What nature can heap up kindness upon contempt, favor upon ingratitude, mercy upon sin? And yet Christ's love has led him to all this; so that well may we spend all our days in admiring and adoring of this wonderful love, and be always ravished with the thoughts of it!

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Everything that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.

* * * * * * *

God has nowhere in the Scripture required any worthiness in the creature before believing in Christ.

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God looks not at the elegancy of your prayers, to see how neat they are; nor at the geometry of your prayers, to see how long they are; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, to see how many they are; nor at the music of your prayers, nor at the sweetness of your voice, nor at the logic of your prayers; but at the sincerity of your prayers, how hearty they are. There is no prayer acknowledged, approved, accepted, recorded, or rewarded by God, but that wherein the heart is sincerely and wholly. The true mother would not have the child divided. God loves a broken and a contrite heart, so He loathes a divided heart.

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He who does not believe that there is a God, is more vile then a devil. To deny there is a God, is a sort of atheism that is not to be found in hell.

* * * * * * *

Here God gives his people some taste, that they may not faint; and he gives them but a taste, that they may long to be at home, that they may keep humble, that they may sit loose from things below, that they may not break and despise bruised reeds, and that heaven may be more sweet to them at last.

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He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Truly the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

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I am His by purchase and I am His by conquest;
I am His by donation and I am His by election;
I am His by covenant and I am His by marriage;
I am wholly His; I am peculiarly His;
I am universally His;
I am eternally His.

Once I was a slave but now I am a son;
once I was dead but now I am alive;
once I was darkness but now I am light in the Lord;
once I was a child of wrath, an heir of hell, but now I am an heir of heaven;
once I was Satan's bond-servant but now I am God's freeman;
once I was under the spirit of bondage but now I am under the Spirit of adoption, who seals up to me the remission of my sins, the justification of my person and the salvation of my soul.

* * * * * * *

Remember this—the more vile Christ made himself for us, the more dear he ought to be unto us.

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Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

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Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that which was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

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Solomon bids us in Proverbs 23:23 to buy the truth, but does not tell us what it must cost, because we must get it though it be ever so dear. We must love it both shining and scorching. Every parcel of truth is precious as the filings of gold; we must either live with it, or die for it.

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The best and sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives to his people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven, a key to let us in to Paradise.

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The lives of ministers oftentimes convince more strongly than their words; their tongues may persuade, but their lives command.

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The person of Christ is the object of faith. It is Christ in the promises which faith deals with. The promise is but the shell, Christ is the kernel; the promise is but the casket, Christ is the jewel in it; the promise is but the field, Christ is the treasure that is hidden in that field; the promise is a ring of gold, Christ is the pearl in that ring; and upon this sparkling, shining pearl, faith delights most to look. Faith has two hands, and with both she lays earnest and fast hold on King Jesus. Christ's beauty and glory is very captivating and drawing; faith cannot see it, but it will lay hold on it. Christ is the principle object about which faith is exercised, for the obtaining of righteousness and everlasting happiness.

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The sovereignty of God is that golden scepter in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgments.

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Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

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Until men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.


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